One of the most remarkable performers at the US Paralympic Trials wasn’t even eligible for a spot on Team USA ...

Amputee athlete Trenten Merrill thinks athletes and fans would benefit from a joint national meet that brings Olympians and Paralympians ...

These six amputee athletes have a lot at stake during this week’s US Paralympic Trials. They're not well known yet—but ...

Paralympic athletes are used to making adaptions, and the pandemic was no different. Some even used the down time to ...

The Tokyo Paralympics are part of a larger, more important story: the normalization of limb difference and the changing cultural ...

Iraq War veteran and three-time Paralympian Melissa Stockwell sees a lot of overlap between the duty to promote American values ...

Amputee athlete Desmond Jackson is blazing trails and advancing the cause of cultural inclusion for amputees, people with disabilities, and ...

In an exclusive interview, NBC Olympics president Gary Zenkel discusses the trends driving the network's beefed-up coverage of the Tokyo ...

As a weightlifter, Jake Schrom can't attract the same sponsorship dollars that swimmers and sprinters can. He pays a big ...

Not many Paralympic sprinters have also starred in a Pulitzer Prize-winning play. That’s the remarkable journey of Katy Sullivan, a ...

Wheelchair basketball player Brian Bell is focused on winning another gold medal in Tokyo. But outside the arena, he feels ...

Meet five world-class amputee athletes who will be contending for medals in Tokyo this summer at the 2020 Paralympic Games ...

Some of Nichole Millage's sitting volleyball teammates were still in grade school when she won her first Paralympic medal. Here's ...

Paralympic athlete Ezra Frech believes passionately that adaptive sports can empower all people with disabilities and help everyone—even non-athletes—feel like ...

Melissa Stockwell was part of the first wave of US Paralympians to demonstrate the marketing potential of adaptive athletes. Here's ...

The NCAA's nonsensical eligibility guidelines left Paralympic medal contender Hunter Woodhall with only one logical choice: turn pro ...

Although he had the misfortune to lose his right leg in a childhood accident, Brian Bell had the good luck ...

This year’s Paralympics will be the first to offer live coverage of every sport to US television viewers. Here are ...

He won't turn 16 until May, but Ezra Frech already has a higher profile than most Paralympic athletes. As the ...

Amputee volleyball player Nichole Millage already has a Paralympic gold and two silvers. So why is she putting herself through ...

Melissa Stockwell was supposed to be six months into retirement from athletics by now, focused on family and business and ...

When COVID put the Paralympics on hold, amputee athlete Hunter Woodhall didn’t need long to figure out how to rechannel ...

Amputee athletes and other Paralympians are supposed to start competing on August 24. Will COVID allow the Games to go ...

Meet five amputee athletes who hope not only to make their Paralympic debuts in Tokyo later this year, but to ...

For a while, it looked like the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics might not happen at all. A couple of months ...

Cheryl Collins, director of diversity, equity and inclusion When Adaptive Sports USA and Disabled Sports USA merged earlier this year ...

The US Olympic and Paralympic Museum was originally supposed to open back in May, about a month before the Olympic ...

Congrats to the team of paratriathletes who kicked off National Triathlon Week by cycling across Colorado’s deserts, peaks and plains ...

Below-knee amputee Nichole Millage has won a gold medal and two silvers in her three previous trips to the Paralympics ...

Despite the virtual format for the 2020 Endeavor Games, the jitters Anthony Quinn felt before he ran his race were ...

SFC Allan Armstrong resumed running just six months after he lost his leg in a motorcycle accident in 2013. He ...

Given that most pro and amateur athletes remain sidelined by the pandemic, June is shaping up as a surprisingly active ...

After finally breaking through to win Paralympic gold in 2016, Katie Holloway was beyond stoked. She and her teammates on ...

If this week's historic merger between Disabled Sports USA (DSUSA) and Adaptive Sports USA (ASUSA) caught you by surprise, you’re ...

When we spoke to Lacey Henderson back on March 19, the Paralympics were still supposedly going to be held on ...

It doesn’t seem like very long ago that we were talking up the 25th anniversary of Adaptive Spirit—and, in fact, ...

“Amputees don’t focus on what they don’t have,” says Patrick Quinn. “They work with what they do have, and they ...

The sports world wasn't entirely dormant over the weekend, as the World Para Surfing Championship proceeded to its conclusion on ...

Our latest conversation with Hunter Woodhall comes on the eve of the NCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championships ...

Hunter Woodhall is one of the biggest stars and most recognizable faces on the US Paralympics team. We’ll be talking ...

A quarter-century is an impressive run for any fundraiser, but Adaptive Spirit merits an extra tip of the cap: It ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) and international partner Allianz have launched Chasing Greatness, a video series aimed at inspiring the ...

The Paralympics now ranks as the third-largest sporting event in the world, trailing only the Olympic Games and the World ...

We got a lot of positive feedback last month on Angie Heuser's first-person story about learning to surf. So we ...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has released the final 2018 edition of its magazine The Paralympian, which reflects on a ...

If you have never witnessed wheelchair rugby in person, you should make it a point to do so. The sound ...